Let your passion be kindled gradually, instead of allowing it to burst forth so suddenly.
Jove's thunders and lightnings are heard and seen before the palace is set on fire.

Everything has its commencements.

If you are so easily excited, no one will believe you are really captivated, and every one will think you out of your senses--if even, indeed, the truth itself not be guessed.

The public is not so fatuous as they seem." The king was obliged to admit that Madame was an angel for sense, and the very reverse for cleverness.

He bowed, and said: "Agreed, Madame, I will think over my plan of attack: great military men--my cousin De Conde for instance--grow pale in meditation upon their strategical plans, before they move one of the pawns, which people call armies; I therefore wish to draw up a complete plan of campaign; for you know that the tender passion is subdivided in a variety of ways.